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  • Israel’s response to its soldiers’ capture is part of a hamfisted attempt to redraw the region’s map
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The framing of Hizbullah
    by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb in Beirut
    The capture of three Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese resistance movement, Hizbullah, to bargain for prisoner exchange should come as no surprise - least of all to Israel, which must bear its own responsibility for the abductions and is using this conflict to pursue its wider strategic aims.
    The prisoners Hizbullah wants released are hostages who were taken on Lebanese soil. In the successful prisoner exchange in 2004, Israel (…)

  • Means, opportunity & motive (MOM) - Israel, US or South Asian involvement in Mumbai 7/11 atrocity?
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Mumbai bombing atrocity - 200 dead, 700 wounded - has shocked the world. Was this an Indigenous South Asian crime or were the Americans or Israelis involved? Nobody has claimed responsibility as yet. However analysis of Means, Opportunity and Motive (MOM) indicate Indigenous candidates (Kashmiri separatists, Muslim-origin terrorists, Al Qaeda, pro-Israel Hindu supremacists or Indian Intelligence) or Non-indigenous candidates, specifically Israel and the US who are closely linked to (…)

  • Up the Tubes..Down the Spout
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Life has it’s ups and downs. Willingness to war is UP Worldwide stability is DOWN The price of oil is UP Consumer confidence is DOWN The cost of living is UP The Dow Jones is DOWN The number of U.S.citizens without health care is UP (estimated 47 million) The Cost of health care is UP Support of Health Savings accounts is DOWN The number of countries who despise the U.S. is WAY UP (since Bush took office) The support of the Bush administration by U.S. citizens is DOWN The Euro (…)

  • JPost.com » International » Article Jul. 16, 2006 0:04 Putin: Israel has goals other than troops
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Sunday he believed Israel was pursuing wider goals in its military campaign than the return of abducted soldiers.
    "However complicated the questions are, maximum efforts must be applied to resolve the situation in a peaceful way and I think all efforts have not been exhausted," Putin said.
    "However, it is our impression that aside from seeking to return the abducted soldiers, Israel is pursuing wider goals," the Russian president told a (…)

  • Tel Aviv-Kiryat Shmona flights are still for Jewish passengers only
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz Correspondent
    Despite promises made by the Transportation Ministry to install temporary X-ray scanning machines in the Kiryat Shmona airport a month ago, Israeli Arabs and Arab tourists are still barred from flights between Tel Aviv and the northern city.
    The Transportation Ministry, acting on instruction from the Shin Bet security service, had decided that Arabs would not be allowed on domestic flights between the north and Tel Aviv, following a financial (…)

  • Lebanon pays for Hezbollah’s sins
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A report from Lebanon’s south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
    By Mitchell Prothero
    Beirutis expected the worst when word came Wednesday that Hezbollah, the militant group based in south Lebanon, had killed eight Israeli soldiers near the border and seized two more. The region was already on edge, with the Israeli siege of Gaza in its 18th day following the Palestinian kidnapping of an Israel Defense Forces soldier. Everyone knew that Israeli retaliation would be severe. The only (…)

  • Killing civilians and destructing basic structure have been a policy of the Israeli’s government
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Killing civilians and destructing basic structure have been a policy of the Israeli’s government
    The escalation of violence in the middle east has been the result of the policy of the Israeli governments. These government have imprisoned more than ten thousands of Palestinians including some democratically elected members of the Palestinians parliament. While that government refuses to free any of them, it denies the action of some Palestinian groups who have kidnapped an Israeli soldier (…)

  • THE HUMAN CATASTROPHE IN LEBANON
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All health care professionals should be made aware of the humanitarian disaster occurring right now in the country of Lebanon.
    As always civilians are paying the most serious consequences of decisions taken by politicians. This is cruel and injust.
    The situation in Lebanon is dramatic:
    the entire civilian infrastructure is destroyed, numerous innocent civilians are killed. The ordinary people of Lebanon are completely besieged from the air and the sea. No one can leave or enter the (…)

  • The Mess: What’s next?..and does anyone really care?
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s try to back away from hate for a bit, and look at the current situation realistically.
    Israel has rights, Palestine has rights, and Lebanon is a sovereign country. But all factions have gone over the edge now, and the whole world is staring into the proverbial abyss together. There doesn’t seem to be an exit strategy for any party. It’s what we call in the U.S. a "Mexican Standoff". No winners possible.
    My concern is with the poor guys in the middle of this conflict; shop owners, (…)

  • The war against Palestine and Iraq
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ibrahim Ebeid
    As the racist war on Iraq and Palestine rages on, the killing of Iraqis and Palestinians continue to proliferate with no end in sight. One might wonder if these coordinated attacks projected by the United States and the Zionist entity were no other than a war of terror and genocide against the Arab Nation?
    As a person who was born in Palestine, before the creation of the Zionist state, I was observing the racist acts of the West unfolding against my own country, (…)